Wisconsin News and Sports
Alyssa Karel’s running jumper in the lane with 2-seconds left gave the Wisconsin Badgers a 76-74 win over rival Minnesota in Big Ten women’s basketball action.
Karel finished with 18 points for the Badgers, who improved to 7-5 in the Big Ten and 17-6 overall.
The Green Bay Phoenix fell from their customary perch atop the women’s Horizon League standings when they fell to Detroit 71-55 in Detroit on Thursday night. Detroit used a 15-0 second half run to upset the 23rd ranked Phoenix. It’s the third straight road loss for the Phoenix.
Green Bay started the season 16-0 and climbed to as high as 14th in the Top 25 National polls. The Phoenix (18-3, 7-3) are just 2-3 since then and a full game behind Detroit (10-11, 8-2) in the Horizon League standings.
Panthers Fall
In Dayton, Ohio, UW-Milwaukee had the lead with 10 1/2 minutes left, then saw he Wright State Raiders go on a 34-7 run to win 64-46.
You build it and they will come! A hockey rink now sits in the middle of Camp Randall Stadium and the University of Wisconsin was hoping to set a world attendance record for an outdoor hockey game. It doesn’t look like that’s going to happen tomorrow in Madison, but that won’t take anything away from the event itself.
The Badger women will face off against Bemidji State at 2pm and the Badger men will take on Michigan at 5pm in the hockey doubleheader at Camp Randall Stadium. [Read more...]
A state lawmaker wants a vote scheduled to override the governor’s veto on who appoints the DNR Secretary. Representative Terry Van Akkeren (D-Sheboygan) has called for Assembly leadership to schedule a vote to overturn Governor Jim Doyle’s veto on a measure that would return the appointment power to the DNR board.
Around 104,000 Wisconsinites could lose their unemployment benefits by the end of April and state lawmakers have asked Congress to extend jobless payments and federal health assistance through the end of the year. Four Democrats from southern Wisconsin, including Assembly Speaker Mike Sheridan, told US Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus that the job market has not rebounded.
The state’s workforce development agency sent out letters to 8,000 people, saying their benefits will end in a few weeks. Spokesman John Dipko says the department will send similar notices to about 1,500 recipients a week. They list other options for getting assistance with health care, food, housing, job searches, and training. Wisconsinites can get up to 93 weeks of unemployment benefits, after Congress granted several extensions during the recession.
The state has lost 163,000 jobs over the last year, and its unemployment rate is now 8.7 percent.
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